NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of
content, digital media and educational products, today announced that
its award-winning NOOK reading experience and leading digital bookstore
are coming to the United Kingdom this autumn through a new www.nook.co.uk
online storefront, marking the first time the company will expand its
business internationally. The world’s largest bookseller will also offer
its highly sought-after NOOK digital products and content to UK reading
and entertainment lovers through partnerships with leading retailers
expected to be announced shortly. These well-known UK partners are
expected to support the NOOK offering there through both established
physical and online channels.

The first products to be available when the company begins offering its
products in the UK in mid-October include Barnes & Noble’s line of
critically acclaimed E Ink® Readers, NOOK Simple Touch™
and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight™, the top-ranked eBook
readers in the US.

“We are proud to be able to offer our top-rated line of NOOK reading
devices and our award-winning digital bookstore to the discerning and
highly educated consumers in the UK,” said William J. Lynch, Chief
Executive Officer at Barnes & Noble. “We’re confident our award-winning
technology, combined with our expansive content – including books,
children’s books, magazines, apps, movies and more – will bring UK
customers the option they’ve been waiting for.”

With its highly acclaimed NOOK offering, Barnes & Noble has been a
leader in creating innovative products that provide the best digital
reading and entertainment experience for millions of NOOK customers. The
company’s many groundbreaking advancements in the digital reading space
include creating the 7-inch Reader’s Tablet™ category, and
the world’s first E Ink device with a built-in light for reading in the
dark. NOOK products are currently sold in the US at NOOK Digital Shops™
and counters in more than 1,300 Barnes & Noble and Barnes & Noble
College Bookstores, and through top US retailers.

The popular NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight are
set to launch in the UK in time for the holiday shopping season. NOOK
Simple Touch is the easiest-to-use Reader with the world’s best, most
paper-like reading screen and longest battery life. NOOK Simple Touch
with GlowLight adds a patent-pending lighting technology for reading in
the dark, so it’s like two devices in one, as amazing at the beach as it
is in bed. Both of the lightweight devices feature built-in access via
WiFi® to Barnes & Noble’s leading digital catalog and an
ergonomic form with a soft-touch back that’s comfortable to hold for
hours.

Starting this autumn, UK customers will be able to shop an expansive
NOOK Store™ featuring more than 2.5 million digital titles –
including top-selling UK books, newspapers and magazines – plus comics,
exciting NOOK Apps and more. UK NOOK customers will be able to “Read
what they love, anywhere they like™” on NOOK devices as well
as their favorite mobile and computing devices using free NOOK reading
apps. Purchased NOOK content is always safe and available through NOOK
Cloud™. UK residents wishing to learn more about NOOK can
visit www.nook.co.uk.

Further product, pricing and availability details will be announced in
the coming weeks.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of
content, digital media and educational products, operates 691 bookstores
in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 647 college bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its
online business through BN.com (www.bn.com),
one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than
2.5 million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks).
Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can
buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms,
including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular
mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software. Barnes & Noble is
proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service
Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes &
Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer
satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a Top 10 online
retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail
Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read
what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive
digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes &
Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles,
and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices.
NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best
in entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet
at a great value ($179 for NOOK Tablet – 8GB, and $199 for NOOK Tablet –
16GB). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($149) feature
a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the
content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web
and more. NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99) is the fastest, easiest to use reader
with the world’s best reading screen and the longest battery life and
NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight™ ($139) features patent-pending
lighting technology that makes it perfect for reading at bedtime and on
the beach. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in
any of its nearly 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi connectivity to
enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the
More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special
promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital
lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology,
available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes &
Noble stores and online at www.nook.com,
as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack,
Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores,
Office Depot, Fry’s Electronics, Kmart, hhgregg, Sears and Systemax Inc.
retailers.

In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers
to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its Free NOOK Reading Apps™,
available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and
read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices
including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets,
PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble
customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK
products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also
offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com),
an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education,
NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com),
a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK
Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol),
the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements (within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) and
information relating to Barnes & Noble that are based on the beliefs of
the management of Barnes & Noble as well as assumptions made by and
information currently available to the management of Barnes & Noble.
When used in this communication, the words "anticipate," "believe,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will" and similar expressions,
as they relate to Barnes & Noble or the management of Barnes & Noble,
identify forward-looking statements.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect
to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks,
including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer
spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's
products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various
factors, risk that international expansion will not be successfully
achieved or may be achieved later than expected, possible disruptions in
Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain,
possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and
intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor
costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping
service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in
channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible
risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be
greater than estimated, the risk that the expected sales lift from
Borders’ store closures is not achieved in whole or part, the risk that
digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does
not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher-than-anticipated store
closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of
Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the performance
and successful integration of acquired businesses, the success of Barnes
& Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise,
component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results
or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse
impact on the business resulting from the review of a potential
separation of the NOOK digital business, the risk that the transactions
contemplated by the partnership with Microsoft to form Newco, including
with respect to any spin-off, split-off or other disposition by Barnes &
Noble of its interest in Newco, are not able to be implemented on the
terms contemplated or at all, the risk that the transactions do not
achieve the expected benefits for the parties including the risk that
Newco’s applications are not commercially successful or that the
expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, the risk
that the separation of the NOOK digital and College businesses or any
subsequent spin-off, split-off or other disposition by Barnes & Noble of
its interest in Newco results in adverse impacts on Company or Newco
(including as a result of termination of agreements and other adverse
impacts), the potential impact on Barnes & Noble’s retail business of
the separation, the potential tax consequences for Barnes & Noble and
its shareholders of a subsequent spin-off, split-off or other
disposition by Barnes & Noble of its interest in Newco, the risk that
the international expansion contemplated by the relationship is not
successful, the risk that Newco is not able to perform its obligations
under the commercial agreement, including with respect to the
development of applications and international expansion, and the
consequences thereof, the costs and disruptions arising out of any such
separation of the NOOK digital and College businesses, the risk that
Barnes & Noble may not recoup its investments in the NOOK digital
business as part of any separation transaction, the risks, difficulties,
and uncertainties that may result from the separation of businesses that
were previously co-mingled including necessary ongoing relationships,
and potential for adverse customer impacts and other factors which may
be outside of Barnes & Noble’s control, including those factors
discussed in detail in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," in Barnes & Noble's
Annual Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-K/A, and in Barnes & Noble's
other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC. Our forward
looking statements relating to international expansion are also subject
to the following risks, among others that may affect the introduction,
success and timing of the NOOK e-reader and content in countries outside
the United States: we may not be successful in reaching agreements with
international companies, the terms of agreements that we reach may not
be advantageous to us, our NOOK device may require technological changes
to comply with applicable laws, and marketplace acceptance and other
companies have already entered the marketplace with products that have
achieved some customer acceptance.

Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or
should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results or
outcomes may vary materially from those described as anticipated,
believed, estimated, expected, intended or planned. Subsequent written
and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Barnes & Noble or
persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety
by the cautionary statements in this paragraph.

Barnes & Noble undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise after the date of this communication.